Survive (David Bowie song)

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"Survive"
David Bowie - Survive.jpg
Single by David Bowie
from the album Hours
Released24 January 2000
RecordedSeaview, Bermuda
Genre Rock
Length4:18
Label Virgin
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • David Bowie
  • Reeves Gabrels
David Bowie singles chronology
"The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell"
(1999)
"Survive"
(2000)
"Seven"
(2000)

"Survive" is a song and single written by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels for the album Hours in 1999. "Survive" was released as the third single from the album in January 2000, it reached number 28 on the UK Singles Chart. It was characterized as a confessional highlight in a review by Rolling Stone. [1]

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Bowie explained that "There was a time in my life when I was desperately in love with a girl, and I met her as it happens, quite a number of years later. And boy was the flame dead! So in this case on the album the guy's thinking about a girl he knew many years ago, and she was 'the great mistake he never made'" [2]

There is a music video for this song, containing a green background and features objects floating including an egg, a table, Bowie himself and his chair, and eventually retreat back to their positions. [3]

Track listing

UK CD version 1

  1. "Survive (Marius De Vries mix)" - 4:18
  2. "Survive (Album version)" - 4:11
  3. "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell" (Stigmata soundtrack version)

This version also includes the full length "Survive" video in QuickTime format.

UK CD version 2

  1. "Survive (live)" - 4:11
  2. "Thursday's Child (live)" - 5:37
  3. "Seven (live)" - 4:06

This version also includes a full length video in QuickTime format of the live version of "Survive". All tracks are from the Paris Elysée Montmartre show on October 13, 1999.

International CD version 1

  1. "Survive (Marius De Vries mix)" - 4:18
  2. "Survive (Album version)" - 4:11

International CD version 2

  1. "Survive (Marius De Vries mix)" - 4:18
  2. "Survive (Album version)" - 4:11
  3. "Thursday's Child (live)" - 5:37
  4. "Seven (live)" - 4:06

A promo version and a 7" vinyl version with the same track list as the "International CD version 1" was also released.

Production credits

Live versions

Other releases

Charts

ChartPeak
position
UK Singles (OCC) [4] 28

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References

  1. "Hours". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
  2. Pegg, Nicholas (2009). The Complete David Bowie. p. 226.
  3. "David Bowie - Survive". Vimeo. 2016-09-01. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  4. "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 January 2017.